 Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 9:10 AM
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Hi, folks:
The Audit Bureau of Circulations recently reported circulation figures for the six-month period ended March 31, 2009, so I thought I'd post the final numbers for the daily print Christian Science Monitor. While I didn't post them last fall, I remember reading CSM had about 53,000 in the six-month period ended Sept. 30, 2008.
The final number of 47,951 is a steep 78.7% drop from the days in the early 1970s when CSM has more than 225,000 subscribers.
It'll be interesting to see what kind of response the weekly gets.
Regards,
GGR
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March 31, 2009: 47,951
Sept. 30, 2008: 53,000
March 31, 2008: 56,083
Sept. 30, 2007: 53,191
March 31, 2007: 58,313
Sept. 30, 2006: 58,519
March 31, 2006: 57,890
Sept. 30, 2005: 53,203
March 31, 2005: 59,179
Sept. 30, 2004: 60,723
March 31, 2004: 69,170
Sept. 30, 2003: 71,146
March 31, 2003: 75,639
Sept. 30, 2002: 74,814
March 31, 2002: 77,665
Sept. 30, 2001: 68,491
March 31, 2001: 71,482
Sept. 30, 2000: 65,277
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Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 6:25 PM
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| 47,951 -- that's an amazingly low figure! Thanks for keeping us informed.
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Posted Sunday, May 10, 2009 8:06 AM
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Linda, Thanks for the stats.
Now, wouldn't CSists have to conclude in their own minds that "Mortal Mind" is winning and that CS is weaker than MM?
no more CS4me
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Posted Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:37 PM
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The quip used to be, "the newspaper that everybody respects but nobody reads."
I wonder when people last respected it? Before long, people will not even know it exists!
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Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:45 PM
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| Interesting data, but to be fair, every daily print newspaper is in trouble these days. A drop of 9.5% in the last six months is a bit higher than the average ~7% for all US dailies in the survey. What will be interesting to watch is the reception of the new weekly review and web formats that the CSM is going forward with in response to print setbacks. Other papers are taking similar measures. Who knows -they may be on to something!
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Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:12 PM
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| Actually it was moved to the computer they still produce a daily paper. Besides the new one is a thousand times better. It is just larger and sent once a week but there is most def. a online daily paper.
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Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:19 PM
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| Is is still a requirement for members of the mother church to subscribe to their periodicals?
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Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:06 AM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/business/media/28paper.html
A lot of papers have lost much more. this is a site if you would like to learn how many other papers are moving omline.
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